Woo I just made my first Squidoo page...

Congrats Kim,

Whats going to be the purpose of your new squidoo lens?

A lens for every one of your products is a great idea. It's easy to build yourself a pretty widespread network. I noticed that your Introduction module (the first module in your lens) doesn't appear to have a title. That is something you'll want to take care of. I would also suggest that you turn off the display ads (it's not likely you'll make any money from them and they are a HUGE distraction).

Most of the modules (and even a couple of other little surprise areas) support HTML. Using it will give you a lot more control over the look of your lens. People surf through lenses pretty fast so you must have something that visually stops them in their tracks. Else, it's just wasted effort.

- Russ

I haven't made my first lens yet as I ordered an ebook but the process crashed and took my $ without giving me the link!

Maybe I'll check out the squidoo bible instead.

Kim, here are two helpful Web pages you can use to "tweak" your lenses:

Health Check for Squidoo Lenses [Beta]
Blog Ping for Squidoo Lenses

Be aware that your tags/keywords aren't useful outside of Squidoo (as of January, 2008). However, they do help drive traffic from within Squidoo.

Take a look at this blog post, too: 4 Out Of 5 Lenses Have Poor Health! | Squidoo Tools and Lensmaster Tips

I made mine a couple of weeks back and it was banned because it had too many links they say. Actually my lens was about different resources that Internet Marketers can use and it was linking to those resources.

In any case it takes too much time to do these lenses etc.

Thanks so much, Kim, and Mrs. S, please do.

- Russ

Kim just to keep you out of your comfort zone, I have sent you a skype message

Hey Kim!

Here's a video I made about how to "get in and edit it" below, but make sure you put in lots of content - at least 3 good 250-word articles. That'll help get the readers in the door


Also, use this site: SquidUtils - Utilities and Tools for Squidoo Lensmasters to help you insert Amazon items in your text layout and do other cool stuff!
Tiff

definitely a start, just add more modules and whatever else you think is relevant and the lens should come to life more.

Im working on my first squidoo lens right now, not to worried about making it perfect right now, just want to get it done.

Kim,

I don't know whether I'm disappointed or relieved ... expected to click through and find a lens titled "Kim's Kewl Knickers." (Although I'm not sure if that's outside your komfort zone! )

Yeah. Squidoo is really good. I have some experience with that. I think if you do it using "doing my own stuff" it might be better because you can simply choose what modules to add

Hey Kimmie,

Superb start. Quick tip--and I'm just trying to help because I want you to make a million dollars and then share it with me

In your opening paragraph you mention wwn.nursing-hints.com. 99% of the people out there are just too darned lazy to copy that link and paste it into their browser. My, I'm the exception--I did that and got to your site.

Here's what you can do in 60 seconds. Go to your dashboard and then to your lens. Click on the "edit button". You need to put an href thingiemabob in your text so you get an active clickable link for your site.

It's easy. Here is your first sentence...

Nursing Hints at wwn.nursing-hints.com shows you how to combat your health problems the natural way. (I can't put links in my posts yet so I had to make it wwn, not www in your link) or this post wouldn't go through--sorry.

Anyway--while in edit mode change it to read as follows (change the wwn to www before you do this):

My book, <a href="wwn.nursing-hints.com">Nursing Hints</a> shows you how to combat your health problems the natural way.

Then click on the "Save" button and then the "Publish" button at the top.

The "Nursing Hints" above is the anchor text. That's what visitors will see. But when they click on it they will be taken to your site.

Try it, you'll see what I mean. Now go make that million

Kim, you got a lot of really good information and advice here so I will just say congratulations and good luck! I have about 30 lenses myself.

Careful Kim, Squidoo can be very addictive! I have about 30 lenses so far, and plan on adding more. I've found that they can be huge traffic drivers to my other blogs/websites. Good luck!

Kim,
The squidoo bible is a great book, and it made me into the president of write-stuff's fan club. You'll get a lot out of it!

I loved squidoo bible too. You will learn a lot about html.
SquidUtils - Utilities and Tools for Squidoo Lensmasters and The Lensmaster Lounge are also good sources of information. Your squid looks good so far.
Rhonda

I gave you 5 stars. Just to be nice :-)

What your lens miss is in my opinion information. I think you should build in 4 - 5 text modules of 100 - 200 words each. This will really help the search engines find something to rank it for.

You should also do a little backlinking to give it more pagerank. A couple of article directories, some dofollow comments and some other backlinks will do the trick. This pagerank will also drip down on the page I guess you are promoting.

You can link to squidoo lenses from Ezinearticles.com

WARNING! Your link to Nursing-hints.com links to the squidoo lens squidoo.com/nursing-hints.com (a lens that do not exist)

Remember to put in the http:// in front of the domain name